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...scientific colleagues) in American Men of Science for distinguished research in stellar motions, statistics and luminosities, Gustaf Strömberg is nevertheless not the kind of scientist to pore myopically over tables and spectrum slides while taking the stars for granted. During the long nights on the mountain overshadowing Pasadena, he has done a lot of unorthodox thinking about the human mind, the human soul, the World Soul, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmos, God. Now he has published the result of his pondering in a book, The Soul of the Universe* a calm treatise calculated to make the flesh of hardheaded materialists...
Midwick is pronounced Middick. And Middick is nice Pasadena's exclusive country club. Midwick does not think that Hollywood is nice. But last week at a polo match at Midwick between the Actors and the Producers for the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Midwick and Hollywood met socially with a slight hiss of conversation. For a week before the game local society and sporting pages had been ballyhooing the event. The Producers team would consist of Walter Wanger, a hard-working non-scorer; Frank Borzage of long low-goal experience; Mike Curtiz, who took...
...inside the clubhouse later, Frank Capra caused Pasadena eyebrows to rise by appearing without...
...some, Midwick's manners seemed to evidence more bravado than brains. Polo is a difficult game to support, and there are plenty of Hollywoodians who are waiting for the exclusive club to expire, anticipating a good buy. A few days before the Hollywood game a Pasadena real-estate operator approached one Midwick director, offered to buy the colonial clubhouse and grounds for a cemetery. Said an undertaker hopefully eying the golf course and polo fields: "The grass is already...
Returned from his longtime job of spreading the Gospel among African Negroes, Missionary Ernest H. Moser told a women's missionary society in Pasadena that not long ago in mid-Africa a native came up and asked: "You're American-what do you think about Roosevelt...